The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women's basketball team continues to hone their identity.

Last weekend in Brandon, the Horns stared a 2-0 weekend in the face.

They liked what they saw, from the veterans and rookies alike.

Fifth-year veteran Jessica Haenni shot the lights out as the Pronghorns downed Bobcats 82-52 Friday and 84-45 Saturday, putting up a 50-point weekend that included a stunning 32 points in 28 minutes Saturday night to earn this week's Canada West Player of the Week Honours.

With the pair of wins that improve the Horns to 3-3, the team will continue to take a long look in the mirror as they eye up the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack Friday and Saturday at the 1st Choice Savings Centre.

On Friday night, Haenni struck for 18 points, four rebounds and five assists before nearly doubling that offensive output in Saturday's rematch with another 32 points and five assists, more than enough to earn her the Canada West nod.

Meanwhile, fellow fifth-year veteran Haily Weaver notched the double-double Friday night with 16 points and 11 rebounds and followed that up with 13 points and three rebounds.

"Our seniors set the tone," said Pronghorns head coach Dave Waknuk. "They set the tone with their work ethic and their attitudes in practice and training. That sets the tone during the week and then they set the tone with how to prepare for a game and how they come out and how impressive they are.

"For what Jessica did in Brandon, scoring 17 points in the first quarter and 32 in the game in 28 minutes, that's something she has put the work into and you appreciate it. Sometimes you take that for granted, how special a talent that is. But I think it's been great to see her grow her game offensively and still get better. She's improved even from last year, and last year was impressive."

Weaver continues to be versatile at both ends of the court, said Waknuk.

"Haily is able to find scoring for us and Haily has been a big part of what we've been successful at."

Not to get lost in the shuffle, the first-year duo of Abby Graves and Piper Dobbelsteyn posted some veteran-like stats.

Dobbelsteyn had a career high with points with 11 on Saturday and Graves posted a career high of her own young Canada West career, grabbing 12 rebounds.

"Those are big numbers for first-years to come in and get," said Waknuk. "To be able to do that right away, I I think for Piper, it's just growing her confidence in her shooting and I think it's been coming for her and it's really exciting to see her growth as a player in a short amount of time."

"Abby always plays so tough and physical and for her to be able to do that, sometimes undersized in matchups, and finding 12 rebounds, is impressive," said Waknuk. "But both have such great IQs and can really pick up the game quickly at a young point in their career. The future is very bright for them even this year. I think as first-year players, it's just finding consistency, but they're bright spots."

Pronghorns second-year guard Kyra Collier has been another key face in the Pronghorns identity.

The local product and former member of the Jr. Horns U17 program had nine points and 10 rebounds on Saturday.

Collier also had 17 points Friday.

"I think we all just filled our roles really well," she said. "We played as a unit and our energy with one another was really good. We were able to get outside of our own mistakes and just rely on our teammates."

Collier said her role is to bring the energy.

"I'm a very loud person on and off the court. So I like to feed into our team through energy, mostly."

Collier has been a spark plug for the Pronghorns off the bench, said Waknuk. 

"She's able to do a lot of things for us and really sets the tone with her energy. I think she really changes the game when she comes in because she's found her outside shot and is able to attack the rim offensively and defensively, she can guard multiple positions and it's always that versatility that I really appreciate about her game. She's put a lot of work into her strength over the summer and you can see it on the floor. She's been a great rebounder and a great spark plug of energy."

The 0-4 WolfPack come into the weekend off of 57-50 and 91-56 losses to the UBC Okanagan Heat Friday and Saturday, respectively.

The WolfPack are 17th in the Canada West in offence with 47.7 points per game. Defensively, they are 10th, giving up 71.7 points per game.

Thompson Rivers is led by Priyanca Sundher's 8.7 points-per-game. Megan Rouault and Danijela Kovacevic are second and third, respectively, on the WolfPack with 7.8 and 7.5 points-per-game.

Maggie Fehr tops the WolfPack in rebounds with 31, an average of 5.2 per game.

Rouault and Kelsey Cruz lead Thompson Rivers with eight assists each. Rouault is also tops in steals for the WolfPack with 10.

"We know they play a lot of zone, so we're preparing for that," said Collier. "But honestly, it's just focusing on our own stuff and when we do that and execute our plays well, that's when we play the best."

With the sweep in Brandon in the books, the days leading up to the clash with the WolfPack was spent with the focus squarely back on defence, said Waknuk. 

"I think our good defence leads to good offence and I think we had to get back to doing the small things we weren't doing before and getting the confidence. It's still early in the season, so it's just guarding as a unit and getting together with cohesion defensively. That takes time and it takes consistency. I think we've had it for moments in all of those first games, but we're just trying to find 40 minutes of it and I thought we were a lot closer to it (last) weekend than we have been. So it's a good sign going forward. I think it's just those reminders on defence for communication and looking at our rotations defensively.

Waknuk said his team is at its best offensively when they share the ball.

"It's just getting us being able to attack what the opponents are doing. Sometimes I think we're over-aggressive and make mistakes because of that. So it's finding that middle ground where you're aggressive and you're composed at the same time. It takes a little bit of practise to do that, but we just need to be able to read what the defence gives us."

Despite their opponent's record, Waknuk expects battle from the WolfPack this weekend.

"Their coach has them playing hard and in their games against UBCO, they were right in those games. So you can't look at their record and expect them not to show up. They'll defend and have a game play and stick to it. They'll be tough, but we really have to focus on our quality of game and obviously adapt to what they're doing. We have to be the best version of ourselves, but you can never take anyone for granted."

The Pronghorns men's and women's team will wrap up their homestand as well as the first semester Dec. 2-3 when the Calgary Dinos visit the 1st Choice Savings Centre.

"I think it's great for us to be able to take away some of the travel elements which are always challenging on the road," said Waknuk. "But to be able to get comfortable here and try to improve and be our best in that last weekend of the semester. We've been trying to improve every week and I think we've been making gains. We just want to keep growing that. For us, it's always about improvement, but it's going to be nice to be home, be in front of the crowd and be back in this building and be able to play with the energy that comes from playing here."

The women's game Friday night is 6 p.m., followed by the men's game at 8 p.m.

Game times Saturday are 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. for the women and men, respectively.